This resource gives teachers and supervisors in extended day programs a store of high-quality yet easy-to-do activities that are both challenging and relaxing for children. The 200 activities included are so clearly presented that many students can complete them independently. Includes crafts, songs, rainy day activities, and more.

This classic, which has been a standard programming book since its original publication in 1990, has been updated and revised for the 21st century! Still has all the great activities that have survived the test of time with school-age children, but with additional materials addressing the needs of middle-school students, staff recruitment and retention, quality standards and more.

Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read. Drawing on a rich array of research on the nature and development of reading proficiency, Adams shows educators that they need not remain trapped in the phonics versus teaching-for-meaning dilemma. She proposes that phonics can work together with the whole language approach to teaching reading and provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge and process involved in skillful reading, the issues surrounding their acquisition, and the implications for reading instruction. A Bradford Book

From the New York Times bestselling creators of Click, Clack, Moo, this eBook with audio provides an entertaning introduction to politics. My fellow Americans: It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land. Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck. We say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he will be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you for your vote.

This classic, which has been a standard programming book since its original publication in 1990, has been updated and revised for the 21st century! Still has all the great activities that have survived the test of time with school-age children, but with additional materials addressing the needs of middle-school students, staff recruitment and retention, quality standards and more.